2023/24 Amadou Onana

[Toffeepot]

Back four not so strong.

Probably the weakest area but there's still Walker/Tomori/Colwill/Chilwell
And even Maguire has shown recently that he's not as bad as the slatings he gets

 

[neil999]

What difference would it make now? Doesn’t make any sense it’s not like we can balance the books after the fact.

I dunno just having a guess, very sorry

 

[Toffeepot]

With our financial situation, Onana is certainly going to be required as a 'book balancer' before too long. Hopefully that won't be necessary until the summer at the earliest. Losing Onana this window will significantly weaken us, unless we replace him but that would be very difficult in January with our limited money.

And he'd barely play for Arsenal before the summer too

 

[MikeH72]

West Ham improved after selling their best midfielder, who’s better than Onana. Over to you Kevin.

 

[blueboy72]

Not having Onana going for 60mil if Caicedo goes for 110mil
Some of Caicedo's performances this season would have people here doing somersaults if he were our player

Expect at goodison and I’ve seen him in a few big games this season and he’s hardly been noticed

 

[blueboy72]

KdB is not the answer to which nation has greater depth. That's the opposite of depth, he's the first name on the teamsheet. The fact is Garner has more players in front of him for England than Onana has for Belgium. Henderson getting games is because Southgate is weirdly loyal and everybody knows he shouldn't be in the squad. Tielemans rarely even starts for Villa.
I really don't know what you're laughing at tbh, England clearly has far greater depth than Belgium
I still think 60mil is too low for Onana but a Garner/Onana debate through the lens of international teams is meaningless

He and Dendoncker another Belgium international both getting games for top 4 villa. Untill Bellingham turned up England basically had Henderson, Philips and rice for the last 5yrs, so I’m not sure where this greater depth comes from you’re taking about. Rice is the only one who would get a look in with Belgium

 

[gedefc]

Wouldn't be surprised if clubs are gonna make offers based on assuming we have a perilous financial situation

Yeah, this was my thought

 

[Baggzio]

You'd think Arsenal should be spending this type of money on a striker, right?

This is now a fairly standard fee in fairness. Any striker that's good enough for Arsenal is nearing £100m these days, don't think them spending on Onana would make a difference one way or the other really. If they going to be without Partey due to "injury" for a while then spending on Onana is wise. It's Richarlison all over again really, very expensive on paper for what he actually returns but is probably £10m cheaper than he would be at another club simply because of the state Everton are in.

Think Arsenal would be fools to commit to finding a striker in January when Toney is the obvious move in the summer.

 

[DanEFC92]

We'd 100% need a replacement. Money can't just go into the ffp trust fund.

 

[Frenk]

I dunno just having a guess, very sorry

Nah mate, not having a go, just sounds strange on the face of it. However, knowing this club it probably makes sense.

 

[blulouie]

We'd 100% need a replacement. Money can't just go into the ffp trust fund.

If its for the FFP/ P&S it's way too late , they were submitted by 31st December.

Probably used for the running of the club & stadium seeing as Moshiri cant/ won't put any more money in.

 

[efcfanwirral]

We'd 100% need a replacement. Money can't just go into the ffp trust fund.

If we could somehow convince Kalvin Phillips that a loan move to us is better than Newcastle then I'd take that swap til summer if it protected us from having to sell Branthwaite or Pickford. The assumption has always been that someone has to go this window to keep the banks from the door

I don't think it's necessarily FFP, just a generally precarious financial position.

 

[Bez2k2k]

You just know he’s going and will be replaced by Lingaard on a free.

 

[BNJ1878]

"Undisclosed fee"

Obvs.

 

[Gibbo1976]

Absolutely gutting if he goes in this window, we need stability at the moment just to get through the season. This will just create another problem for Dyche that we don't need.